Food startups like Nouri Mama, a pregnancy and postpartum meal delivery service in New York City, are aiming to bridge the cultural gap for those who may be living far from their grandmothers and aunts, and even their native foods.

“The idea of staying in a postpartum hotel or having a person dedicated to you, all of these other cultures have that, but that seems to be lost in translation once you’re in the States,” said the nutritionist and private chef Jennifer Jolorte Doro, Nouri Mama’s co-founder, along with Irene Liu. The company’s offerings are rooted in the tenets of postpartum traditional Chinese medicine and employ Asian cooking techniques and ingredients, such as white fungus, mung beans and sesame oil, though the dishes are more modern in their sensibility.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/parenting/postpartum-food-traditions.html